Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, says the mount­ing mur­der toll and ris­ing crime spree im­pact­ing the coun­try was not un­ex­pect­ed, giv­en that it is hap­pen­ing three months af­ter the end of this year’s State of Emer­gency.

To­ba­go ban­dits used a blow­torch to at­tempt to break in­to the FCB ATM in Cas­tara this morn­ing, but de­spite burn­ing through three doors, they failed to break open the vault and es­caped with­out a cent.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) host­ed a sen­si­ti­sa­tion ses­sion on the Air Pol­lu­tion Rules (APR), 2014, tar­get­ing stake­hold­ers in­volved in Sched­ule 3, Des­ig­nat­ed Ac­tiv­i­ty 7 – Health Sec­tor: Cre­ma­to­ri­ums and Med­ical Waste In­cin­er­a­tion.

A 44-year-old woman was ab­duct­ed at gun­point by three armed men who am­bushed her fam­i­ly on Bassie Street, Curepe, late on Ju­ly 13.

Caribbean coun­tries are to ben­e­fit from the re­newed agree­ment be­tween the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) and Bloomberg Phil­an­thropies to en­hance civ­il reg­is­tra­tion and vi­tal sta­tis­tics (CRVS) sys­tems in the Amer­i­c­as.

A fast-mov­ing wild­fire de­stroyed a his­toric lodge and dozens of oth­er struc­tures on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, forc­ing of­fi­cials to close ac­cess to that area for the sea­son, the park said Sun­day.

Al­le­ga­tions of deep-root­ed cor­rup­tion with­in the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) have sparked po­lit­i­cal con­tro­ver­sy. This, af­ter Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen ac­cused the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion of turn­ing the ini­tia­tive in­to a “feed­ing fren­zy” for friends, fam­i­ly mem­bers, and fi­nanciers.

Min­is­ter of Labour, Small and Mi­cro En­ter­prise De­vel­op­ment Leroy Bap­tiste says any work­er who los­es his or her job is a con­cern to him.

Farm­ers on the Re­trench Es­tate in San Fer­nan­do are call­ing for a for­mal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to what they de­scribe as land grab­bing by a pri­vate con­trac­tor al­leged­ly linked to a for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment has re­ject­ed claims that any project plans have stalled due to a lack of prop­er­ty tax funds.

Ram­pag­ing bi­son are de­stroy­ing crops and threat­en­ing liveli­hoods in Berridge Trace, South Oropouche, where a group of farm­ers say they are los­ing thou­sands of dol­lars in pro­duce.

De­spite top­ping the na­tion in the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) and earn­ing a place at her first-choice school, Na­pari­ma Girls’ High, Sand­hya Di­vya Ma­haraj is call­ing for the abo­li­tion of the ex­am she just con­quered.